4,095
Participants
Start Date
March 31, 2001
Primary Completion Date
May 31, 2004
Study Completion Date
May 31, 2004
Benchmarking Management Practices
"The Benchmarking intervention included:~1. Data feedback: Using existing data from the NRN Generic Database and Key Care Practices Survey at their NICU to collect data on the perceptions of care.~2. Training in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Techniques~3. Review of best existing evidence~4. Site visits to the Centers with the Lowest Rates of BPD~5. Selection of Practices to change: Each site team selected practices for modification at their own center"
Standard Management Practices
Centers assigned to the control group continued to receive routine information on their own center's outcomes, and all information routinely supplied within the NRN. Control centers did not participate in organized discussions of the interventions applied within the Benchmarking centers. At the completion of the study, Control Centers were offered a workshop on the Benchmarking techniques.
University of Rochester, Rochester
Wake Forest University, Charlotte
RTI International, Durham
Duke University, Durham
Emory University, Atlanta
University of Miami, Miami
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham
Case Western Reserve University, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland
Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, Cincinnati
Indiana University, Indianapolis
Wayne State University, Detroit
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston
Stanford University, Palo Alto
University of California at San Diego, San Diego
Yale University, New Haven
Brown University, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
NIH
NICHD Neonatal Research Network
NETWORK